My pics of Lisbon

12 Jul 2016

Travelling is such an immensely stimulating time, and to keep all the overload in check, I like to set categories for photo-taking, so that my eye knows what to do.

This was especially useful to do in Lisbon, where there is SO much to look at, so my categories of Tiles (obviously), Blue Tiles, Signs & Graphics and Gates & Grilles helped shape my photo taking… although when you click through to each of these, you’ll see I STILL took a squillion pics!

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